I saw predictions about this as soon as news broke that Musk's offer was accepted. I saw some people saying that Twitter was too big, that their size would keep them on the app stores. Respondents raised the example of Apple yeeting Epic Games off of their app store. If Apple will do it to Epic, they will do it to Twitter.
Elon is going to learn the same lessons Gab did, that institutional power wanted Twitter to be the censorious shits they were.
Twitter will face huge legal fights if Elon really does reform Twitter into a 1st Amendment speech zone. European countries don't have 1st amendment equivalent protections, and will levy heavy fines if Twitter continues to operate resident entities in European jurisdictions.
Maybe Elon can set Twitter up so that their terms of service are nationality specific, and users must specify their nation of residence when they use the service, but one thing I do know is that no way in hell would I accept British or other European speech laws applying to me, an American. My ancestors fought a war to get out from under the thumb of a European nation, and those censorious sumbitches ain't gonna tell me I can't say certain things.
Someone made a suggestion the other day that I liked.
If they're going to verify everyone anyway, use driver's licenses instead of phones and you can determine their nationality.
Then you go to the law agencies and say "You each get 5 mod accounts. You have power only over users in your country but you can do whatever you want".
Puts the ball back in the governments hands. The biggest problem with government censorship is that they're offshoring it to big tech so no one is able to fight back directly.
So long as Twitter is liable for financial losses due to identity theft from data breaches. As it stands right now, no way in hell do I trust my identity documents anywhere near Twitter.
I was going to talk about Epic's fight against the same companies, but I'm still mad about their women's day BS.
They formed an organization to fight it, Epic and Match Group (read : Tinder and the other cesspits) are the leaders of it. Twitter could join their lawsuit.
Epic did get back onto iPhones via the GeForce Now client.
Epic found a lot of dirty dealings by Google to discourage sideloading, and a plan to make a bid to Tencent to try and force a hostile takeover of their company.
Likely that Twitter will face the same smear campaigns and shady tactics (Fake warnings that sideloaded apps could destroy your phone) as Epic did.
Elon will follow the nations laws that Twitter operates in. Europe will have no problems at all with what European twitter users are allowed to view on Twitter. Meanwhile Elon won't do anything on VPN's because they aren't outlawed in the EU so Euro's can get actual twitter with a simple VPN.
I saw predictions about this as soon as news broke that Musk's offer was accepted. I saw some people saying that Twitter was too big, that their size would keep them on the app stores. Respondents raised the example of Apple yeeting Epic Games off of their app store. If Apple will do it to Epic, they will do it to Twitter.
Elon is going to learn the same lessons Gab did, that institutional power wanted Twitter to be the censorious shits they were.
Twitter will face huge legal fights if Elon really does reform Twitter into a 1st Amendment speech zone. European countries don't have 1st amendment equivalent protections, and will levy heavy fines if Twitter continues to operate resident entities in European jurisdictions.
Maybe Elon can set Twitter up so that their terms of service are nationality specific, and users must specify their nation of residence when they use the service, but one thing I do know is that no way in hell would I accept British or other European speech laws applying to me, an American. My ancestors fought a war to get out from under the thumb of a European nation, and those censorious sumbitches ain't gonna tell me I can't say certain things.
Yeah, the thing is, they haven't actually been banning hate groups. They've been banning competing hate groups.
If you banned hate groups including feminists it might work.
Also if they killed twitter entirely that would definitely be fine with me.
It's a fair point, but I would point out that Epic was directly taking money away from Apple.
Twitter isn't, at least not directly, so it may be a bit more difficult to justify to shareholders.
Someone made a suggestion the other day that I liked.
If they're going to verify everyone anyway, use driver's licenses instead of phones and you can determine their nationality.
Then you go to the law agencies and say "You each get 5 mod accounts. You have power only over users in your country but you can do whatever you want".
Puts the ball back in the governments hands. The biggest problem with government censorship is that they're offshoring it to big tech so no one is able to fight back directly.
So long as Twitter is liable for financial losses due to identity theft from data breaches. As it stands right now, no way in hell do I trust my identity documents anywhere near Twitter.
I was going to talk about Epic's fight against the same companies, but I'm still mad about their women's day BS.
They formed an organization to fight it, Epic and Match Group (read : Tinder and the other cesspits) are the leaders of it. Twitter could join their lawsuit.
Epic did get back onto iPhones via the GeForce Now client.
Epic found a lot of dirty dealings by Google to discourage sideloading, and a plan to make a bid to Tencent to try and force a hostile takeover of their company.
Likely that Twitter will face the same smear campaigns and shady tactics (Fake warnings that sideloaded apps could destroy your phone) as Epic did.
Elon will follow the nations laws that Twitter operates in. Europe will have no problems at all with what European twitter users are allowed to view on Twitter. Meanwhile Elon won't do anything on VPN's because they aren't outlawed in the EU so Euro's can get actual twitter with a simple VPN.